I recently read Running on the Cracks by Julia Donaldson. This is her first teen/ tween book; she wrote such books as the Gruffalo and Princess MirrorBella before.

It is all about a girl called Leonora Watts-Chan who runs away from home. Four months ago, Leo's Mum and Dad died in a plane crash. Since then she's been staying with her stuck up Aunt, her creepy Uncle and her horrid Cousins, Flo and Caitlin. At the start of the book she is in a train station with a ticket to London (which she doesn't use), to throw them off her trail and gets on to a train to Glasgow without buying a ticket. The reason she's going to Glasgow is because she wants to meet up with her Granny and Granddad, the Chinese relatives Leo has never met. All she knows about them is their surname is Chan and that they used to run a chinese restaurant. On her travels she meets a boy called Finlay and an old women called Mary, who is - unfortunately - mad.

The book follows their story through Leo's eyes and follows Finlay every other chapter but it is not from his point of view. I would recommend this book, it is a very good read. Although it is quite short and quick (I couldn't put it down and finished it in one day) it is worth reading!

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